Debian::AptContents doesn't correctly source apt-file contents files

[Giles Westwood]

On precise.

AptContents.pm

    return map
        { $host . "_" . join( "_", $dir || (), "dists", $dist, $_ ) }
        @components;

returns gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main

When processing a line from the sources.list e.g.

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main

but apt-file actually creates a Contents file without main

gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_Contents-amd64.gz

This causes the apt-file dependency management to fail.

So either apt-file or AptContents are wrong, they don't share a single library for parsing the sources.list file. apt-file uses:-

sub parse_sources_list($) {

##########################

A config only workaround to anyone who has this problem is to create a ~/.apt-file.conf

with

destination = <host>_<path>_dists_<dist>_main_Contents-<arch>.gz

or just to rename the files to include the components.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lasse Makholm (lasse-makholm)]

Attached patch seems to fix it for me. It assumes that it's OK for repo_source_to_contents_paths() to generate paths that might not all exist - don't know if that can cause problems... Seems to work.

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[Sean Whitney (sean-whitney)]

The patch supplied by Lasse works for me too.

[gregor herrmann (gregoa)]

I've committed Lasse's patch to the dh-make-perl git repo now, should be fixed in the next release.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/dh-make-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=aa2facfcf73dbe7cbcdaa83a26049785943d963b

[gregor herrmann (gregoa)]

patch committed in git